{"id":13803,"date":"2011-04-01T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:19:11","slug":"staff-picks-terry-castle-jane-smiley-ramona-ausubel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/staff-picks-terry-castle-jane-smiley-ramona-ausubel\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Terry Castle, Jane Smiley, Ramona Ausubel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13854\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/exhibitions\/exhibition.asp?id=42\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13854\" title=\"hawthorne-sophia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hawthorne-sophia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hawthorne-sophia.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hawthorne-sophia-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diary of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809\u201371).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do not take Terry Castle to bed if you plan on getting any sleep. I keep trying to savor\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Professor-Other-Writings-Terry-Castle\/dp\/B0041T4O4O\/\">The Professor<\/a><\/em>, her memoirs of love and friendship in the academy. It\u2019s like trying to savor cocaine. The title essay, about a formative affair Castle had as an undergraduate, is now up there on a short shelf in my mind alongside <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ADOLPHE-BENJAMIN-CONSTANT\/dp\/2253045888\/\">Adolphe<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/First-Love-Ivan-Sergeevich-Turgenev\/dp\/B002IKLFDG\/\">First Love<\/a><\/em>. \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Morgan Library\u2019s exhibition \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/exhibitions\/exhibition.asp?id=42\">The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Bob Dylan sketches a hotel-room table and then uses it to ink out a poem; JP Morgan has a first-rate time with the girls at dancing school; Charlotte Bronte struggles to write in between her studies; John Ruskin graphs out \u201cpretty\u201d\u00a0chess moves; and Albert Einstein thinks \u201cabout the gravitation-electricity problem again\u201d\u00a0even though he knows he should be doing other things. The show comes complete with a brochure of carefully typed out diary entries, but I found it much more rewarding to squint my way through the diaries, wondering at the tiny scribbles and neat printings, and feeling just a bit closer to these beloved authors and figures. \u2014<strong>Rosalind Parry <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a girl crush on Ramona Ausubel, whose short story \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2011\/04\/04\/110404fi_fiction_ausubel\">Atria<\/a>\u201d\u00a0was published in\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em> this week. I can\u2019t wait to read her forthcoming novel, <em>No One Is Here Except All of Us<\/em>. Of it,\u00a0Ausubel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2011\/03\/ramona-ausubel-on-atria.html\">admits<\/a>, \u201cI have been trying not to think too hard about what it will be like to release this story to the great big world.\u201d (P. S. Don\u2019t miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/the-animal-mummies-wish-to-thank-the-following\/\">her story<\/a> in The Daily last week.) \u2014<strong>Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This week I read Jane Smiley\u2019s first novel,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Barn-Blind-Jane-Smiley\/dp\/0006547265\/\">Barn Blind<\/a><\/em>. I loved it\u2014but only partly for Smiley\u2019s gripping portrait of a family smothered by obsession, more alone together than apart. I also lost myself in the particulars of equestrian life, which were all the days of my youth. It\u2019s like a horse book for grown-ups. \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I felt a wave of nostalgia this week when I found Raymond Carver\u2019s \u201cWhy Don\u2019t You Dance?\u201d reprinted in the new issue of <em>Zoetrope: All-Story<\/em>. The peg? It came with a foreword by Will Ferrell, who\u2019s staring in <a href=\"http:\/\/trailers.apple.com\/trailers\/independent\/everythingmustgo\/\">a new film called <em>Everything Must Go<\/em>, adapted from the story<\/a> and directed by Dan Rush. \u2014<strong>Janet Thielke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/a\/theparisreview.org\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>I spent the weekend reading David Foster Wallace\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pale-King-David-Foster-Wallace\/dp\/0316074233\/\">The Pale King<\/a><\/em>. It was a frustrating and bittersweet experience\u2014not because of the writing, but for the underlying suspicion that Wallace was only beginning to untangle the larger themes of the novel from the dense, IRS-center backdrop. 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